PLATE LXXII. 
3. HAGLOE CRAB. 
This fruit originated at Hagloe, in the parish of Awre, Gloucestershire, and was first brought 
into notice by Mr. Bellamy who lived there. Marshall in his “ Rural Economy of Gloucestershire,” 
states that it was raised from seed about the year 1720, but Mr. Thomas Andrew Knight in the 
“Pomona Herefordiensis,” 1811, thinks that the excellence of the apple was only then first 
discovered, for his friends had sought in vain many years before for the original tree at Awre. A 
coloured illustration is given by Mr. Knight, Plate V., of this apple. 
Description. —Fruit: small, ovate, narrowing above and below, but very irregular in shape, 
being usually much more full on one side than the other. Skin : pale yellow, with an orange tint 
on the side next the sun, with distinct crimson spots irregularly placed, and with occasional cob-web 
streaks of russet. Eye : small and closed, with reflexed segments, very slightly depressed, and 
surrounded with five or more small distinct tubercles. Stalk : thin, half an inch long, set in a very 
narrow cavity, lined with thin pale russet. Flesh : white, moderately firm. Juice : plentiful, pale 
amber, sweetish and subacid, with some astringency. 
The chemical analysis of the juice (1882) by Mr. G. H. With, F.R.A.S., gave the following 
results :— 
Density of the fresh filtered juice ... ... .... i’057 
Ditto ditto after 24 hours’ exposure... .. ... i‘o57 
One hundred parts of the juice by weight yielded of— 
Sugar ... .... ... ... 10700 
Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. .... .... ... 2'iio 
Water ... ... ... ... .... 
The Hagloe Crab seems to have disappeared from Herefordshire, for it has never once been 
shown at any of the apple shows of the last five years. It is still to be found in the parishes of 
Minsterworth, Westbury-on-Severn, Longney and Elmore, in Gloucestershire. 
